Houston Street

Houston Street is a major east-west thoroughfare in Manhattan, New York City. Named for Georgian Constitutional Convention delegate William Houstoun, it was established in 1811, and it came to form Greenwich Village's southern boundary. From 1891 to 1895, Nikola Tesla's laboratory was located on Houston Street. During the 1930s, the street was greatly widened, creating several vacant lots which were later turned into playgrounds and community gardens. It serves as the southern boundary for Alphabet City, East Village, NoHo, Greenwich Village, and West Village and the northern boundary for the Lower East Side, the Bowery, Nolita, and SoHo.